Win a copy of "The Well-Designed Mixed Garden"

Garden Detective, Jessica Damiano, is running a contest on her award-winning garden blog. Just tell her what makes you a unique gardener -- and the best response gets a copy of the book The Well-Designed Mixed Garden, the follow-up book to author Tracy DiSabato-Aust's 1998 best-seller, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden.

The amazon.com review calls the book "encyclopedic in scope yet unfailingly attentive to essential details", saying that The Well-Designed Mixed Garden

effectively summarizes an array of basic garden design considerations and fundamentals. There are particularly useful chapters on color theory and on drawing up a plan, with precise instructions on what size plants to purchase and how to space them.

The important subject of plant maintenance is addressed and the author makes good use of photos to show readers how recommended plant combinations actually look.

Now remember, Jessica Damiano is a big fan of the author, Tracy DiSabato-Aust, saying she likes not only DiSabato-Aust's hair, but her unpretentious, no-nonsense style. She continues with:

Her books are chock full of practical tips, useful planting straegies, unusual plant recommendations, and, very importantly, lots of photos, which are mandatory if I'm to consider a plant reference worthy.

Let me know if you win. Send your email to jessica.damiano@newsday.com. I'm off to send mine right now!

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